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...outside audit of the School Department. Currently, Cambridge schools submit both to internal audits and to outside audits that the system pays for. Galluccio’s order expressed a “lack of confidence” in the current system, stemming from, in part, a 1.2 percent surplus in last year’s schools budget that went initially undetected. “I believe after 12 years that I’m entitled to ask a legal question,” said Galluccio. “I envision a time 10 to 15 years from now when...
...thing’s for certain—any surplus stress added on to the valiant pursuit of enjoying “quality time” with the fam during the holidays is less than ideal. It takes enough energy to get through the supposedly benevolent guidance from grammy about matters such as precisely where you should part your hair or button your blouse...
...world. South Korea maintains a strict quota that limits rice imports to just 4% of the country's total annual consumption. About 7% of Japanese consumption is accounted for by imported rice, but hardly any of it actually reaches supermarkets. Much of it is stuffed into government surplus warehouses or passed on to other countries as food aid. Foreign rice that does reach store shelves is made so expensive by tariffs that it poses no threat to domestic rice?which is also pricey, because the average Japanese farm is small and production costs are high. Japanese consumers pay as much...
...concession by limiting exports of textiles to America through 2008-China could have insisted, on the basis of trade rules that took effect last January, that Washington impose no restrictions on Chinese T-shirts, nylon stockings and underwear. Instead, the textile move helped lower tensions over China's trade surplus with the U.S., which is expected to reach a record $200 billion this year...
...Napolitano took on the state's budget-deficit crisis. She presented a proposal that eliminated the $1 billion deficit without any tax increases. She persuaded moderate Republicans to vote the bill through with the minority Democrats. Now Arizona's economy is booming, with a projected budget surplus of more than $300 million and 4% job growth, the second highest in the nation after Nevada...